No public library stands in Bainbridge: the closest, BCIT Library, is 3.7 km away
The library figures on this page are Burnaby’s: Burnaby Public Library serves all 299,682 people of the city, Bainbridge among them. 5.1 visits per person served came through its doors in 2025. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
BCivic life#156 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Bainbridge’s civic life grade
Civic life in Bainbridge grades B: #156 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Bainbridge.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
365 registered charities are based in Burnaby, by mailing address
There is no count for Bainbridge on its own: the charities are those of all of Burnaby. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.2; the median is 1.2 for British Columbia towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
36.9%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses British Columbia as a whole: 36.9% volunteered formally in 2023, between 35.2% and 38.7%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 2 measures
Measured per person served against the 32 town libraries of British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 4,225 visits a day
The year 2025 at Burnaby Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 3.7 km from Bainbridge
In order of distance from the centre of Bainbridge, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bainbridge
Does Bainbridge have a public library?
Bainbridge has none mapped; the closest public library is BCIT Library, in Deer Lake.
How busy is Burnaby Public Library?
It counted 1,541,976 in-person visits in 2025.
Library statistics: BC Public Libraries Statistics, 2025. Library locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Statistics Canada, Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (2020). Charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (2024), charitable organizations only.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).